February 2017 Monthly Goodreads

Welcome to our February 2017 Monthly Goodreads!

Articles

• Melinda Gates: I Wouldn't Be Where I Am Today Without Contraceptives (Fortune)

• London Stock Exchange/Deutsche Boerse merger in doubt (BBC news)

• Hundreds' of US Jewish graves attached in Philadelphia (BBC news)

• Yemen: Art, love, bombs and bans (Al Jazeera)

• US: Remembering Japanese internment camps 75 years on (Al Jazeera)

• Meet the man crowd-funding Gaza's first English library (Al Jazeera)

• 100 days of demonetisation: Stories of hardship (Al Jazeera)

• South Africa lets 100 mental patients die (The Economist)

• Why national budgets need to take gender into account (The Economist)

• The Man Who Let India Out of the Closet (The New York Times)

• South Africa, a Nation With Sharp Inequality, Considers a Minimum Wage (The New York Times)

• Meet Aisha, a former antelope hunter who now tracks Boko Haram (The Guardian)

Books

• Nujeen: One Girl's Incredible Journey from War-torn Syria in a Wheelchair (by Nujeen Mustafa)

• Inside the Nudge Unit: How small changes can make a big difference (by David Halpern)

• The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of Silicon Vally Are Changing the World (by Brad Stone)

Podcasts

• The Syrian Conflict (University of Oxford)

• How The Media Are Using Encryption Tools To Collect Anonymous Tips (npr)

• Pentagon Officials Review Overall Strategy To Fight ISIS (npr)

Videos

• Why Silicon Valley Is In Another Tech Bubble (Bloomberg)

• Snap Fizzles as Shares Take a Beating for Second Day (Bloomberg)

• So Hype for Hyperloop | Crunch Report (Tech Crunch)

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